The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-16 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Monetary affairs within the past few days have 1188 nnaed a v er y f avoura bl e a pp earance. T he con tinuance of the official minimum at 8 per cent., and the constant increase of the capital afloat in the general discount market, have occasioned an easier feeling to prevail, and the brokers seem more die- Posed to compete with the authorities for the bud., tress brought forward. Discounters are now willing to negotiate approved short-dated mercantile secu rities as low as 76 per cent,, and with this con. cession there is m uc h l ess d eman d f or accommoda tion. The authorities of the Bank of England, as day be expecte d, are d a il y rece i v i ng less appl i es . tione for assistance; and this circumstance, if long 11 5 ) titinuod, will doubtless cause a favourable :tam. tic% to be recorded in the next balance-sheet issued from the national establishment. business in the Mincingslane markets during the last few days has been rather dull, For raw sugar however there has been a fair enquiry chiefly for ahlimont to France, and prices have been well sus tained. Coffee has been dealt in to a very limited extent at slightly reduced prices, while in rice, fruit, and spices, there has been little change of importance. I a the tallow market the operations for both pre lent and forward delivery have been on a moderate scale, at steady prices. The committee of the Stock Exchange have ape Pointed Friday, the 19th inst., a speeial settling day la the shares of the Great Eastern Steamship Com. Pany (Limited), which are to be marked in the twice a week lists. There was a parcel of gold amounting to 41 01,000 taken into the Bank of England yes terday, Two o'CLocK. At Paris thi s d a y, a ccor di ng to M r. Renter ' s telegram' the French 3 per Cents. were 661 - , 50c. Z'irra. The market for English Stocks has presented tal,"helerY fiat appearance this morning, th e transac recorded having been chiefly by sellers. Pri ces have acc or di ng ly g i ve n w a y, th e d ec li ne i n the Funds amounting to 1 per cent. Consols are again quoted 891 1 for money, and 891 g for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annui ties are 88! f, the Five per Cents, 1873, 104; do. 188 8, 14 9.10 11-16. Exchequer Bills, 255. to 15s. ; India 5 per Cents., 1031 10411 do. 4 per 995; ditto Certificates, 99; and Enfaced 5 Per Cents., 94. The buoyancy noticeable yesterday in Foreign securities has passed away, and general depression t his morning prevails in its stead. Mexican, ex all, h ave declined 1 to 28i 29; the New Stock has also r eceded 1. to 26 1; Greek are i t worse at 2319; Ti des Passive 1, at 30! ; but Turkish Cons°. eee are better at 501 ; and the Confederat e °54 is y higher at 77 79. In the Railway blare Market the operations h ave been on a very limited scale, and prices have e . llo wn rather less fi r m ness . G reat N orthern A L incoln, have decli ne d £1 ; Manchester, She ffi eld, and 44 incoln, and Metropolitan, each 10s. ; and South ftstern, 10s. ; while Caledonian have improved 108. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without change of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in modem !Ito request at almost previous quotations. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. . GOVERNMENT FUNDS. c Per Cent. Consols Do Account, Aug. 8 Per Cent. Reduced BB2 4 k ew 3 per Cent Ne w 2/ per Cent. Jan. 1894... . A Do a per Cent., Jan. 1873 lO4 ' 411 ,., uities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — " 0 for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l4 9-16 11,16 Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908, March. — June. Ea beqUer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 & 31 per Cent. 24 Do £500 8 Do £lOO and £2OO allk Engl an d S t k, 51 per Ct. 1)0 Account.. IN D L i ,. Ito( GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Va Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 — b ° Account _ ° .I 6 per Cent. . uly, 1870 .... I T) Account .4° 1 Per Cent., Oct. 1888 991 DDo Cerificates 0 Enf ace d t Paper, 4 per Cent 94 ~0 6 p er C en t . , Jan. 1872 - 1 7 6 1 per Cent., May, 1879 T A ° 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 £l,OOO — -u0 under £lOOO An. YOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. •-,trian Bonds, 5 per Cent B_ Do 1859 ilzilian. 5 per Cent -.° li per Cont., 1852-58-60 - tr, 33 0 1863 — -e t. ti iiii 'ls Ayres 6 per Cent Ow 44 6 per Cent. tu.',otubian 6 per Cent — b" 1 6 per Cent. ° o „ A 6 per Cent, 1864 — vauor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — b ah ?! Provisonal Land Warrant — t k .,7 11 3 per Cent., 1825 Z, l3ti art 7 per Cent lOl/ 0 1 , 0, Second Issue tE,e, 6 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 232 r; Acount .. ... D Coupons Gt..° Accoum. .• - - 3 0 ta iriala 5 per e Cent. — 44 1839 and 1859 Ito x i t e t ' 6 Per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 731 13 111 3 per Cent h 0 Account V I 6 Per Cent, 1864 b° French Scrip, Ex. 25f 200 — - 1)' 6 Per Cent. Anglo-French - die ko oh tt ° Scrip, £23 paid Il ev : 1111 1 Imperial b per Cent ' "Tan d Do 2 a a D o per Cent..... 1, Deferred 11° Land Warrants (Hectares) — ° :D ebentures, 4 por Ct., April 1861 — P e Do d o tlt • Aug., 1866 0, n4l per C e nt .. 1) ' 3 7)a per Cent. (Uribarren) .. - 4 } per Cent., 1862 1/4.° Account — ~,411guese 3 per Cent., 1853 -.,,,0 Account .. --• jr 3 per Cent *, 1856 P '7, ' 9 , ' 6O , 62, ' 3 .. 4 7} I 4, 4,, 0 Account .. 471 A .... B ,azian 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St 1 43 4A ° 'if per Cent., 1850 1860 1 ) /: 0 3 Der Cent 1859 I :,„“) 5 per Cent, 1862 :uo Ang,lo-Dutch 100 Scrip, £4O paid pm 'tlinian 5 per Cent e 13 0 Account tanish 3 per Ccnt .Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive .t.. — i s U 0 Account.. Danish Cert. of Coup not funded — 8 "0 Account. Nish 4 per Cent T ,P. Scrip, t i 30 paid . . pm ‘ t kish 6 per Cent. 1854 D o b AccouT It °6 per gent. 1858 . Da A 4 .eco - int D £ l OO, Bonds b ° 6 t / er Cent. 1862 b 0 Account .. 70 0 £4'o Bonds 11 0 , Do 1863 'ca ` l 'Aarazteed, 4 per Cent. ez . bo' Account 1), 6 per Cent., 1862 .b o Elecount b c ,,criP £45 paid OOO 0 60 -- die per Cent 4,44 ,bividends on the above payable in London I 1) 0 1.1 A 43 ; 6 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins. tucil. ; ``ccotuat u -- itch 4/ per Cent., Ex. 25f — tp o ' 4 , 2 i par Cent. Ex. 12 Gull 62 i It. a . 1 Per Cent. dertificates D o 5 per 1861, Ex. 25 francs — ? t (1 'iccount Cont.,' ,st'ariT', Rentes, 2 per Cent. 4 lti c t,l l4 A Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s. `"lltese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f — C u TWO O'CLOCK. .I m„ „. .4 ,) A - lii.iley ' e4 : 30 1.1n.t B9l i Z 11.4 11)001 Cotton Market—This Day, 'et - very firm. Saks about 8,000 bales. tit rt 11 4e / 1. it 44 GROUNDS.—An act of parliament Was Egglathe day of the prorogation for the registration in t he (B 7 ll ,"%?f 411 bu r i a l s p er f orm ed according to the rites of 4 N. ' 44ll ed church in grounds provided under the burial z oo , Vgatt:lNG HER EASE,—An American paper - states 40 t1,- - ' ere is in St. L ou i s a young lady of 18 who has done 411 g but ea t and sleep since she was f our years o ld , She 440 'or s few L.ingtes twice hi tha 24 hours, BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing , Share ftailwaye Paid. Prioe. Business done 100 Atlantic &St Lawrence all 58 60 Som.,Baroda&Cent Ind Sk i 100 ICO 101 101 i t Gu. 5 per Dent... 20 ' Do. New . ..... 20 Do. N. Shares 74 i die p 204 Bullalo and Laxelluron all . 54 10 Do. Preference , all 74 iii 1001 ',..,uffalo,BrantotUOtirlel 100 75 80 , t 6 p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, ma 100 Do. do. July 1, 187;, , 100 75 10 100 Do. do. June 1, 1871 100 75 80 at Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lin, 100 97 99 at Cape Town & Dock Sail 100 94 96 91 stook itlastn. Bengal gu. sp. ( 100 101 103 shook East Indian, g`ll. sp. c. 100 11.0 1004 101 i 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 15 par 4 p 20 Do. do. H do. .. 15 par 4 p stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 19 2) 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds., all 71 73 100 Do. do. deferred...... all CO 63 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. all 66 68 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 55 57 100 Do. 3d Fief. stock ... all 48 5e 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 43 45 400 Do. 4th Pref. stock... all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 26 28 stook GLlndiaPenin.gua.sp.o 100 101 102 1024 20 Do. New gua. sp. 0... 12 par 4p Do. January, 1802 .. stock Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 98 Ico 100 204 Gt. W. of Canada Stares all 94 94 204 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 witlet opt. all 80 91 100 Do. 54 p. o. do. '77-8.. -. all 82 84 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 i d In stock Madras gear., sp. c... 100 99 100 stock Do. qp. o. Extension 100 92 94 stock Dc. 44 d 0........ 100 89 91 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stock sfelb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnds. 100 50 Hell). & llobson's Bay. all 60 62 100 Do. 7 p.c. Slortg. Bds. all 20 Newßrurswok a Candy: Class A and B. N.l.ll.C'daB pc Ist pt bds 100 82 84 , stock Scinde ..........) (100 09 101 stock Do. Delhi l • ' ' 100 99 IGO 991 20 Do. do , ca u - 4 2 * id at Do. Punjaub I Do. Do. ....__!. • ! get 6 , 00 k I Do. Indue.St. Flo.) llOO 93 05 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. uth.Gor. 6 p.o.Ja. SzJul3 1877-81 .. ........ 100 06 CO Do. 6p. a. Feb. & Aug. 100 06 99 Do. 6p. c.Mar.& Sept. 100 98 102 Do. 6p. o. Jan.&July. 10c 84 86 85 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 84 86 Cape G.Hope. 8p 0.1873 100 104 106 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 107 109 Do. 1890 100 1(8 110 !Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 106 108 ..... Ceylon, iiu rt a s N o o v , 100 110 112 i per cent. 100 103 105 INatal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 104 107 -- N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. J a.&July 100 97 100 Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Uov. 5 p 1.,180t 100 96 48 Du. sp. c.. 1611 to Mt 100 96 98 —• Do. d0.,1888 dcupwds 100 96 98 . 964 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 - - INoTa Scotia Gov. 6p. o. sterling, 1875. lOO 99 102 Queensland Gcv. 6p. 0. 100 101 104 1031 S. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up.. 100 105 107 106 Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 Do. 10 6 p.o. An.&Oct.. 100 1084 1094 BRITISH MINES. 2 iiambrian Consol. Gold 1 / 3d ulifford Amalgamated.. 31 33 Devon G. Con.. (Tavist.) 1 575 685 585 East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 68 70 East Clogau Gold. Ltd. —d East Caradon ..... 273 253 East Cam 8rea........ 3.4.0 8 83 E. W'l Russel (Tavistic.) 8.13.2 43 5 Gam.4lLSLAubyn(Gwen , 584 5 7 Great South Tolgus.... 17s 2 23 23 G. Wheal Vor (Idelston 40 26 28 Grenville [lend's-Foot ...... 8.12 S 8 40 13ingaton Downs 4.18.0 31 43 Lady Bertha - - Margaret (Ony Lelant 94 8 10 —3larke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ' 23 13 1 d New Setun .. 1t 75 85 North Downs 3 13 1 N.WIOI Basset(lllo4an, 3.1.0 21 33 North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blaze) Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.0.7 4) 42 South Caradon(StCleer; 13 480 500 S. Carn Brea (Illogan) — S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan; 18.18.9 423 474 'Stray Park 30.17.6 28 30 flunarSilv.k Lead Min — - fin Croft 9 18 19 West Basset (Illozan) l3 9 10 W Cr radon (Liskeard) 9 14 16 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 53 90 95 Wheal Baller(itedfuth) 10 sO 25 Wheal Kitty (I.l.Lelant) 2.0.6 - - Wheal Ludeott Wheal Mary Ann ;Lien ) 8 14 16 Wheal &ton 585 215 220 Wheal Trelawney (Lis.) 7 19 21 Wheal Union 4 l3 2 Great DJ PREFERENCE SHARES AND MUNI:). Eastern 4/ per cent. pf., itto, 5 poi' cent pf:, 7 11 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL& Lancaster and Carlisle, 212 i FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (Jim.) gua. 7 per ocnt., 10 Namur and Liege gua. 14f. per annum, 8* Sambre and Meuse, 7* San Paulo (lira.), gua. 7 per cent., 10* south Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 211 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties. Ext. No. 1,:108 Great Northern, 5 per cent.. red. atilo per cent. pm., Ditto, per cent., redeemable at 10 per cent., lolf FOREIGN MINES, Mont. Aureos Brazil Gold Min. Co., 2i &Blanca aim./ 64 Anglo Austrian, 7/ Consolidated Bank, 11M., 111 11 nuonean Bank, lim., 14/ Ditto (Z 5), 8 Imperial Bank (11m.). 3 8 Imperial Bank of china, India, and Japan, lint. al Imperial Ottoman, 171 } Land Mortgage Bank of India, llm., 151 London Bank of Mexico and S. America, lira., London and County, 72 1 21 London Joint Stock, 43 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, lira., 13 Union of Ireland, lim., 20} 1 Union of London, 52 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 19 Australian Agricultural, 22 Egyptian Corn. and Trading, Um., 3i Financial Corporation, Fore-street Warehouse, lira, 7} Hudson's Bay, it Imperial Mercantile Credit A sew., Um., International Contract, 4} Land Credit of Ireland, lam., 51i 4 Land Securities, I'm., 51 London Financial Association, lira„ 25 M .dras Irrigation and canal, 5 Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency, lim,, Milwall Iron Works, q National Discount Company, lira,, 14 Ditto, new, 11} Oriental Financial, lira., 31 GALLANT CONDUCT OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD. William Aspinall, of Liverpool, in a letter to a con temporary, says :—" I was sitting in St. James's-park yes'erday, after dinner, near the or namental water, when there was a cry that a child had fallen in. Suffering myself from chronic rheumatism I was debarred from rendering assistance. Although there were hundreds of persons looking at the drowning boy, no one seemed in clined to save him, when a gentleman about fifty (whom I recognised as the Dulls of Bedford) approached, and after looking about for a few moments, evidently to see if any one one was inclined to jump in, suddenly jumped in and brought tho boy safely to land, amidst the shouts and blessings of tlao multitude." MARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOO&S. Share; Railways. i p a i d. ! Closing B us i ne ss I Price. done. Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. RoNt.,Sleat.,andAlid.tio ,Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon 9 91 86 68 1261 1271, 6 7 ID o A 1A gets ono dil ~Do• B tlll6po.pan.has been paid to B. Dublin 01 , Belfast June. Dun.,rerth,&Ab. Juno. Edinburgh Si Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western Great Eastern, Ord, stk Ditto A stock 35 36 16 17 89 01 110 112 47 48 Ditto East Anglian et GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stook Do B do Gt. S. and W. of 'mimic: Great Western ... 7 7i 131 135 15.4 153 i 131 i 33 92 94 69 G_l Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & Nor h Western Lon. & So'.th Western Man., Slid., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Dot shares... Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Binning. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern —Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E., Aber. stook Do Soot. Mid. stook Shrews. and Welehpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern 120} 121 GS 70 1051 IC6i 42 44 1174 118 pg 67 G 74 IC3 114 1381 18.% 108 110 5411 65} 25i 25i 1054 09! 65i 661 951 961 126 129 1); 78 80 104 11 126 130 39 41 67 69 35 37 84 9.1 !South Wales IS. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,andWok Stockton Darlington , Do • Do Nevi, 1866 Taff Vale .. ....» Do B Do C ......... Ulster 1 103 105 7 8 374 38i 104 114 c• 8 0 / 165 170 6 7 t 3 4 p Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall 101 104 34 36 W. Hartlepool Har.4ll. West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 13.14. t.16.4i 100 all all all all 100 100 100 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1864. LAW INTELLIGENCE.--This Day, COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.) His Honour resumed his sittings after the vacation, bat the cases were for release from custody, &c., unopposed. Mr. Registrar Pepys presided over the meetings for the choice of assignees, which were not of interest; the only one of the slightest importance was that of Dando and Chetwynd, of Leadenhall-street, shipbrokers and owners, and timber merchants. The debts and liabilities are stated at 431,837, and the assets are expected to realise a divi dend of 2s. 6d, in the pound. The failure is attributed to failure of debtors and general losses in trade. Messrs. Perrin, of Fenchurch-street, shipowners, were chosen assignees; Mr Perrin, and Messrs. Terrell and Chamber lain were appointed solicitors, and Messrs. Carters and Harper, accountants to the estate. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGII-STREET. ASSAULT ON A CONSTABLE.—EIIen Carmoody, a young woman, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt, on a warrant, with assaulting police constable George Bettsworth, 181 C. Bettsworth said that on the night of Sunday, the 17th of last month, he saw a crowd collected round a man and his wife who were quart% lling. While dispersing the crowd the prisoner rushed from some young men she was standing with, and, making use of a vile expression, struck him a severe blow in the eye with a door key. The crowd got the prisoner away and she escaped, but two of the persons were brought to the court and fined 20s each or 11 days. He then applied for a warrant against the prisoner, and seeing her in New street last night took her into custody, when she said that she was sorry, and that it would not have occurred had she not been in liquor at the time. The prisoner said she had no key in her hand at the time. Mr Tyrwhitt said he recollected that the constable had his eyes blackened. The prisoner was fined 200 or 14 days. THAMES. DASTARDLY OUTRAGE,—George Griffiths, an umbrella maker, aged 20, of Cable-street, Whitechapel, wa© brought before Mr Paget, charged with being drunk, disorderly, and violently assaulting Edward Dillon, a police sergeant, No. 19 K. Yesterday evening at five o'clock Dillon was sent for to the Hoop and Grapes public-house, in Ratcliffe-highway, to suppress a disturbance. The prisoner was then very drunk and disorderly. He demanded beer and Mr Shepherd refused to serve him. Dillon removed him and he became very violent and raved loudly. He lay on his back, got hold of the police sergeant's leg and attempted to throw him, He also made repeatc_A attempts to bite him, Assistance came and the prisoner, after a most de.termined resistance, was removed from the house. On the way to the station-house the prisoner was again violent, threw Dillon with great force on the ground, kicked him, and tore the skin off his shin. He also " broke" his uniform troweers. It required three constables to take the prisoner to the station-house by force. Dillon was smuch injured, and his wrist sprained. Mr Paget said, if the prisoner became inebriated and conducted himself like a savage, he must take the conse quences. The prisoner was a brutal ruffian, a nuisance in the public-house from which the police-sergeant removed him, and then committed a dastardly assault. He sen tenced him to two months' imprisonment and hard labour. MARKETS—This Day. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £5 5s ; clover, £4 Os to £6 Os ; and straw, £1 4s to £l. lOs per load, Trade firm. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow bay, £3 Os to £5 5s ; clover, £4 Os to £6 Os ; and straw, 4s to £1 10s per load. A steady demand. WHITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £5 ss; clover, £4 Os to £6 Os; and straw, £1 4s to £1 108 per load. Trade firm. Extraordinary Find of English Silver Coins at Eccles. During the last few days there have been, under some what singular circumstances, a succession of finds, at the same spot in Eccles, of a very large number of slicer pennies, chiefly of the reign of Henry 111. The extent of the deposit may be gathered from the fact that the total quantity of these coins found numbers about 6,400 pieces, having an aggregate weight of about 21 pounds avoirdupois. A new junction road is being made from Wellington-road, Eccles, past the boundary wall on the west side of the ancient resi dence known as Monk's Hall, where it is probable the Monks of Whalley Abbey, who were formerly the lords of the greater part of Eccles, Menton, and Swinton, had a Grange or farm residence, with tithe barns, &c. and where they coll .cted rents and tithes from their tenants and other inhabitants of the neighbourhood. 01 Saturday week a young man named James Britch [? Bridge], a card - room band at the Moorside Mills of Messrs John Uibb and Sons (who had two fingers taken off by incautiously putting his hand too near the beat(r in the blowing-room), was walking along this footpath, when his eye caught some thing on the ground. He picked it up and found it to gl bea itteg small rin silver coin, an d a li tt l e f ur th er searc h was rewarded by finding about a score of similar coins. Still he did not pick up all that he saw, and did not believe the coins to be worth much ; for he gave several to his companions and acquaintances. He showed some to Mr J. Allan Gibb, one of his employers, who told him to take them for inspection to a gentleman in the neighbourhood, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, who would be able to tell him their nature and pr o b a bl e va lue. This gentle man gave Britch a few shillings for 15 coins, and learning that he had left some lying on the spot, urged him to go again and bring away all he cou ld fi n d. Thi s w as on th e morning of Wednesday i n last week ; but strange to say, Britch did not go to the spot till Thursday evening, and then his trouble was largely rewarded by finding that not only were some coins scattered about the footpath, but that in one spot there was a large collection, which, on his beginning to remove it, he found to be contained in a coarse earthenware pot or pipkin. This be emptied, and took his treasure for safety to the neighbouring residence of Mr Allan Gibb. About five o'clock on Friday morning Briteh again visited the place, and found 179 more coins; but he left the pot in the earth, covering it up with soil. Ths same morning he again called on the antiquary and told him what he had done, and the gentleman at once accompanied him to the place, and with the aid of a small garden tool, the pot (which was mouth uppermost and close to the surface) was carefully ex humed ; but was so fragile and friable that it crumbled even under tender handling, and broke, and only the lower part could be got away. Even at their fourth visit 20 more coins were found on the surface of the footpath. The pot and coins were removed to the residence of the local Monk barns ; where the latter were washed, a thousand of them counted, weighed in a kitchen balance, and found to be about 3!lb avoirdupois. The rest were then weighed in batches of 31 lb., and in this way it was found that there were probably about 6,403 of these silver pennies, weighing altogether about 211 b. The 1;000 counted coins were then cursorily examined, and it was found that 964 of them were of Henry 111. and though of different types, yet all Struck before the 32d year of his reign, 1247-48, when, in order to stop clipping, the cross on the reverse, which till then had been confined within the legend border, was carried through that border to the edge of the coin, in the new mintage of that year. All the coins examined have the short cross. The remaining portions of the thousand coins included nineteen of the reign of John, and seventeen of other and various types, but all probably earlier than the reign of Henry 111. Of the 961 coins of Henry, there were many varieties of type. This King had mints in various parts of the kingdom, and different •mint- masters, or, as they were called, moneyers, and it was then the custom for the zeverse of a coin to bear the names of the moneyer and of the city or town where it was minted. Of the coins of Henry 111. in this find, most seem to have been struck at London and Canterbury, but there are some also of the mints at Winchester, Taunton, Northampton, Chichester, Bury St. Ed munds, Lincoln, and Durham. Amongst the moneyers' names are Abel, Adam, Ajmer, Alisandre, Andre, Arnaud, Bartelme, Beneit, Elis, Fulke, Fulre, Henri, Hiun, Huater, Ilger, Joan, Chichester, Johan, Jun, Meinir, Miles, Nicole, Norman, Pierres, Rauf, Reinard, Ricard, Roberd, Rodbert Roger, Saleman, Samuel, Simun, Walter, and Willelm., The obverse of most of these pennies of Henry 111, is the same, the King represented full face, with crown and cross of pearls, and the sceptre in the right hand, surmounted by a similar cross. Legend, " Henricus Rt a," but with out the " Terc." or "III." of later coinage. Ruding observes that the alteration of type introduced upon the money of this reign forms a kind of era in the numismatic history of England. The portraits of previous monarchs were usually represented either in full or profile ; and the crosses were exhibited under almost every possible form. But the portrait of Henry 111. is invariably full faced ; and the cross (always of double lines) on his earlier coinage Is bounded by the inner circle and has four pellets in each quarter; while the later coinage of 1247 had only three pellets in each quarter. As no penny has been found in the Ecoles hoard of the later type, and none of any later reign, it affords a fair presumption that this treasure was hidden in the ground between about A.D. 1220 and 1247. As to the coins of Sing John, it may be mentioned that although there are proofs of a coinage in his reign at mints in England, no genuine coin of any of these has been found ; and the only silver pennies of this king were all coined in Ireland. The chief feature of these coins both on Obv. and Rev. is a large triangle, enclosing (on Obv.) the King's head, full face, with a sce ptre in right hand, . . . and the legend in three pnrts on the sides of the triangle, "Joha-nnes Rex." The reverse on all the Eccles coins of John, has within the triangle a crescent, a blazing star, and a small star in each angle, Legend, " Itoberd on Dive" (Dublin). The third class of coins appear to be of ruder typo and earlier period. The obverse has the face in profile usually to the left, the legend so rudely executed as to be almost illegible. None of these is represented in any of the numerous plates in Ruding's Annals of the Coinage," and it is a mere guess to say they may prove to be pennies of William Rufus. The pot or vase is urn -shaped, of coarse reddish earthen ware, and slightly ribbed inside; the only external orna ment being a border of small square indents. It was very tightly packed in the hard dry earth which surrounded it, and to the dry soil is owing the excellent preservation of the majority of the coins. They seem to be tolerably free from alloy, as only two of the whole could be found show.- leg any green oxydation or patina. Our readers may remember that in consequence of a very large find of gold ornaments in the south of England, which were sold and melted to prevent detection, an act was passed authorising the Crown officers to purchase, at the or silver ornaments or coins, so as to rewar d the fi n d er, and to marketpreserve l value of articlesthe metal of weight, any treasure in gold antiquari an value from destruction. The local antiquary near Eccl es wrote on F r id a y t o the Crown authorities, describing the circumstances of the find, and the character, weight, and number of the coins ; so that in a few days we may be able to report the first case of any extent under the new act, and its practical result. CeTwo LIONS , . - -Geeat excitement pre vailed e inr E the o neighbourhood of Above Bar-street S out h amp t o n ) on Saturday night , in consequence of two lions having escap ed from W orabevell's menagerie. The E exhibition is located in the Westmoreland Park, at the back of the High-street, on a portion of the ground used for the drill of the rifle corps, Being Saturday evening, a larger number of spectators than usual attended the exhi bition, and a great crowd of persons had also assembled outside. It appears from the statement of those who were present, that, about 9 o'clock, the keeper announced his in tention to enter the dens, for the purpose of putting the animals through their usual performances ; and for this purpose, he first proceeded to the carriage occupied by two lions, the visitors, as mutt' or. such occasions rushing to that part of the exhibition. Th e keeper, after ad dressing a few words to his audience, opened the iron-barred door of the carriage, apparently with the usual catition ob served at exhibitions of the kind, when suddenly one of the lions leaped upon the keeper's back, followed by the other, and both animals sprung out of their den and amongst those assembled round the carriage. One of the beasts continued leaping about amongst the visitors' many of whom having been knocked down were sprawling on the ground, and those who were more fortunate were eyi ng about in a state of terror, and for a short time the greatest excitement pre vailed. The animal was soon secured by the keepers, who then went in search of the other lion, Which, instead o amusing itself inside the exhibition, bounded up the steps and sprang from the platform among the people assembled outside, who immediately fled in all directions. The lion ran across the park towards the savings bank, and one of the houses in the terrace having its door open, walked into the passage and thence into the parlour, where some ladies were sitting, who fled through the folding doors into the adjoining room and thence upstairs. The keepers arriv ing, the lion was soon secured and caged. Several persons were knocked down, tram p l e d upon, and their clothes torn, but fortunately none sustained personal injury, THE MISSION TO RicHmoND..--Mr. Horace Greeley states in an article in the Independent that Colonel Jaques and Mr Gilmore, the latter more widely known as Edmund Kirke, author of "Among the Pines,,, went to Richmond with the full knowledge of the Presi dent, intent on devising or discovering some ground of ac commodation or adjustment between the belligerents now devastating the Republic, and appear to have been treated with signal courtesy, and even generous hospitality. Mr Gilmore gives the net product of the unofficial mission in this piquant passage:—" Jefferson Davis said to me last Sunday, and, with all his faults, I believe him a man of truth, ' This war must go on till the last of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and fight our battles, unless you acknowledge our right of self-go vernment. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fight ing for independence; and that, or extermination, we will have,' " The Distress in Lancashire. The monthly meeting of the Central Executive Committee was held at Manchester yesterday; the Earl of Derby in the chair. There were present — Lord Egerton of Tatton, Lord Edward Howard, M.P., the Mayor of Manchester, Messrs. M. Ross, R. Hutchison, S. Platt, G. L. Ashworth, R. Glade stone, A. H. Heywood, H. B. Farnall, W. Roberts, T. Ashton, J. Worrall, H. Mason, S. J. Stein, R.H.; Hutchinson, J. Goodair, and S. W. Maclure (hon. secretary). Mr R. Rawlinson, the Government en• gineer, was also in attendance. Mr Maclure re. ported that £314 183. 4d. had been received in the last four weeks, and there:was a balance in the bank [ of £129,430 12s. 10d. Letters were read announcing that the relief corn• mittees of Itoyten, Lees and district, Salford, and Newton Heath had been enabled to close their ope rations. Each of thess committees also forwarded copies of resolutions - vhich they had unanimously passed, thanking the Central Executive Committee for their liberal grants and the considerate atten tion given to all applications for aid from the seve ral districts referred to. Mr. TvIAcLuRE presented his monthly report, which stated that the reduction in the numbers re lieved had been 15,051, and since the end of January in this year 99,821. The facts shown in the table were most cheering, contrasting the present with the past. With a maximum of distress reached at Christmas, 1E62, when there were 510,279 recipients of relief, from either the guardians or local committees, the number fell to nearly one half that amount by the following June, viz., to 266,634. The Christmas of 1863 wit nessed a further decline of 72,500, the aggregate at that season being 193,506. At Midsummer last the total was further reduced by 71,000, leaving then 112,598 on the poor rate or upon private bounty adi ministered by the relief committees. This was not much more than onePfifth of the maximum at Christmas, 1862. The number now relieved is reduced to 96,295, and as the ordinary pauperism of these unions rises in the winter to about 50,000 in-door and out-door (in summer the number being a little, but not much, less), the present pressure upon the district is not more than double that of ordinarily prosperous times. The HON. SECRETARY proposed, " That as the average pressure of pauperism in the cotton dis tricts is now reduced to 3.9 per cent., the grants of this committee will in future be confined to the relief of persons not receiving parochial aid." He theught it was quite time that something was done to prepare the whole of the cotton districts for the cessation of aid from this committee, and that this would probably be best accomplished by some such resolution as ho had read. The average pressure on the rates was now only about double that of 1861, which was admitted to be the most prosperous year ever known in Lancashire. Mr J. PLATT seconded the resolution. Mr H. MASON strongly opposed the proposition. He thought it was most - objectionable to say that, because pauperism had been reduced to so low an ebb throughout the greater part of Lancashire, this separation ought everywhere to Itake place between relief committ ees an d th e guardians. A return made up to last Saturday showed that there were 5,833 unemployed cotton operatives in the borough of Ashton, which was nearly as many as they had ever had at lny period of the - distress. In Stalybridge there were 3,600 ; at Moseley, 1,700; and at Dukinfie:d upwards of 3,000. He had been using every effort to get these unfortunate people distributed in other districts, where labour was obtainable, but the position of tiffairs was still what be had stated. For the last 150 weeks they had made no change in the mode of distributing relief in the Ashton, union, and they would not like now, at the eleventh hour, to have one enforced upon them. The existing system worked remarkably well, and he trusted they should be allowed to work out the distress in Ash ton in the way which experience had shown most advantageous for that locality. Tho CHAIRMAN said that Ashton had received from public sources during the distress above £250,000, or ten times as much as had been locally contributed throughout the whole union, irrespec- tive of the rates. Mr MASON said these figures did not present by any means a correct view of what had been done locally, inasmuch as they did not; include the very considerable amount contributed in private charity. The CHAIRMAN said that against this explana tion he might make the remark that the Hurst committee and the Ashton manorial committee, which were also in the union, had received upwards of £45,000 from the Mansion-house committee, not included in his previous statement. Mr. MASON said if it should be implied that Ashton had received more than its necessities de manded, he denied the justice of the inference, and affirmed that the contrary had been the case. It was true that the whole of the grants of this com mittee to Ashton had been made in aid of the rates, but Ashton had rated itself to a far greater extent than any other place in the county. They had at present more than I,COO young women in the sewing classes, and they were exceedingly anxious as to what should become of them. He thought the motion of Mr. Maciure might be applicable to certain towns, but that it was quite inapplicable to Ashton-under-Lyne. The Hon. SECRETARY said the principle involved in the motion, which he had always advocated, had been sanctioned by the chairman and the Bridge water-house committee, and applied most benefi cially in Stockport, Blackburn, and elsewhere, and in mercy to the unemployed people themselves he thought it was necessary that it should be univer. sally adopted. Mr H, HUTCHINSON thought the exceptional po3ition of Ashton and one or two other places might be met by the following addition to the re. solution :—" In all unions where the pauperism does not exceed five per cent. upon the population." Mr MACLURE said he was willing for the present to adopt this addition, reserving, however, the privilege of again bringing forward the subject in its original form, should such a course appear desirable. The resolution thus amended was, after some further discussion, unanimously agreed to. The Hon. Secretary said that Mr. Rawlinson had ki n dly favoured him with the following informati on res pecting the operation of the Public Works Act. There were 77 places in which public works were il l operation on August 15. The new act extended the time to make loans to January 1, 1856, and ex tended the borrowing powers to two years' rateable value. Preston, Ashton, and Glossop were the chi e f places in which there were yet a considerable num ber of unemployed. In many places the 'public works were being carried out with reduced numbers, o wing to the opening of many mills and the l arge nucther of persons who were at present engaged in agricultural operations. Mr. Madura added that 1,668 skilled operatives and 2,600 factory workers were at present employed on public works. Calcu. luting these on on average of four to a famil y , which would be about the correct estimate, it ap., peered that nearly 20,000 persons were maintain e d under the provisions of the act. J 1r MAcLuitE laid on the table returns, prepared by Mr Corbett, respecting the state of pauperism in Ashton-under-Lyne union. A grant of £ll4 6s. was made at Stalybridgo from the employment and school fund, and one of Xll to the same place on account of superinten- deuce of labour. The following grants were made from the General Relief Fund:—Ashton, £1,000; Dukinfield, £500; Mossley, £5O; Stalybridge, £800; Tintwisle, £150; Heywood, £300; Chorlton, £lOO (final) ; Hulme, £250; Glossop and Hadfield, £550; Whitworth and Facit, £5O; Wigan, £5OO ; Little Hayfield X5O. i4Tr FARNALL read his report, which stated that there was a decrease of 6,184 persons receiving relief ih 27 unions on the 6th inst. as compared with the 9th ult. ATTENDANCE AT THE JUDGES' CHAMBERS,—This day the Lord Chief Baron will conclude his sittings at the Judges' Chambers, and will be succeeded by Mr Justice Shee on his return from circuit. His lordship will sit on Tuesdays and Fridays ditiduz. the log vac4tiQt, 1521 I 69& 1 1 8} 171 103 4?. 1181 17i 113 1331 8 loq i it t9j 911 i j 2 COLONIAL. TEA—Business has been rather dull, and the few dealings reported have been at about former rates. SUGAR—The market has been a shade firmer in conse quence of an export demand for France, and prices have in some instances ruled a little higher. La the Refined Market, however, no material change can he reported. COFFEE —The demand for colonial descriptions has been limited, and quotations are slightly depressed. RICE—A fair amount of business has bees transacted, without any material alteration as regards prices. TALLOW—Business has remained very quiet, owing to the excessive heat of the weather. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 41s 9d, and last three months 43s 9d per cwt. SHIPPING-THIS DAY, LONDON, Aug. H.—Wind this day at noon—W.N.W.; ight breeze and cloudy. FALMOUTH, Aug. 15.—Arrived—Thomas Dryden, from Akyab. SWANSEA, Aug. 14—Sailed—Ieabella, for Prince Ed• ward's Island. litni., Aug. 13.—Sailed—Maria and Elizabeth, for Quebeo. CARDIFF, Aug. 14.—Sailed—Brothers, for Mauritius— Harmony, for Quebec. PORTSMOUIL, Aug. 15,—Wind N.E. to S.E.—Sailed— Queen of the Clippers, from London, for Bermuda, after stopping a leak. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND Tuesday Morning. Arrived, August 15—Good Design, froni Antwerp— Elizabeth Ann, from Dordt—Oacar, from Droback—Per severance, from Medemblik—Vindex, from Charlotte Town —Day Spring, from Boulogne—Exhibition, from St Malo Swantje Groendsal and Thomas Rising, both from Amster dam—Earl of Carlisle, from Riga—Speedwall, from Am sterdam—and Belfast Lass, from Dunkirk. Arrived, August 16—Elide, from Archangel—Abeona, from Riga—Vrouw Anna, from Worcum—and Conoordia, from Amsterdam. Course of Exchange,—Yesterday, Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 12 2 12 Antwerp 4.. Brussels - 25 72} - 25 72 26 77i 25 77i Hamburgh Paris .. , Ditto 'Marseilles .. — 25 70 Frankfort on Maine - 1201 Vienna Trieste Petereburgh — 31 Berlin — 13 10} 25 35 25 76 25 76 121} 11 90 11 90 31f Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo.. Messina Lisbon .. Oporto 471 48k 25 77} 25 80 25 77i 25 77i 25 80 25 80 511 51i 48} 484 2b 85 25 85 25 82} 25 82k 25 85 25 85 THE DEATH RATE AND THE MAIN DRAINAGE.--• At the present time, and during the next four or five years, the statistics of mortality in the metropolis will have a peculiar interest and value. At a first glance at the returns of the Registrar-General, or those of Dr Letheby for the City, it would seem that the interest which ordinarily attaches to such documents could scarcely be enhanced by anything less than either a plague on one hand, or a com plete cessation of the occurrence of death on the other. But it happens that we are now in a transition state as respects the public health. The vast undertakings of the Board of Works are fast approaching completion; the sewage is being diverted from old to new channels; the breadths of mud laid bare at every ebb tide on the banks of the Thames will probably be less offensive and less injurious; and we are all looking forward hopefully to the time when the river, which has made the City, shall no longer be poisoned by it in return for its good deeds. There is just one unfortunate circumstance connected with the main drainage works, and that is, that the means adopted for the purification of the river consists only in removing the pol luting agents to a greater distanoe than formerly from the abodes of the citizens; the river Is not relieved entirely, but the pollution is to take place where there is a vast volume of water, and comparatively few residents The poison will thus be diluted, and the point of its first mixture with the water removed to a distance ; but it can never be held that this method is so likely to be effectual as the transference of the sewage to some quite different chan nels, as, for instance, the burnt.up meadows and barren arable lands, where nature's chemistry would convert the present sources of pestilence into sources of health and happiness, and make wholesome food on land of that which is the detroyer of food in the waters. For a time—say for the first seven years—the main drainage will be on trial, and we shall expect to see in the returns of registrars some evidence of the good ac • complished, though, in principle, the drainage system is open to so many objections. We do not know how many agencies exist for the engendering and diffusing of morbid influences in a place like London, which is neither a town nor a city, but an aggregation of towns enclosing a city, and the whole comprising so immenee a population, that no rule of health found safe elsewhere can be said to apply of necessity to such a case as this. We have need to be thankful, however, fir what little we do know of the laws of life and of the effect on life of the circumstances that surround it in the midst of great cities. From that little, we may safely conclude that much has been:accom plished already to lengthen the term ofilife and reduce the number of its penalties in London and in all our great towns, but we are also compelled to conclude that much remains to be done yet, and that every delay in the accom plishment must be paid for in so much actual disease and so many actual deaths; for though death is inevitable, and must come upon all men, nevertheless the death-rate is an exact measure of the value of our hygienic resources, as well as of the extent to which destructive agencies aro permitted to prevail,--City Pi ass, SECOND EDITfoi. (From the Correspondent of the _Dmly Neu's.) COPENHAGEN, Aug. lies A royal proclamation has been issued, add resse,d to the Dani s h army , i n w hi c h hi s M a j es ty announces S P ORTING INTELLIGENCE,This P en forthcoming p eace . " Soldiers," he be gins, "th e struggle is end e d. F rom th e war's blo o dy scenes you will return to your home work." Th el , follows mention of the heavy cost entailed by the 'war, of the still heavier sacrifices to purchase peace: "The fatherland's welfare bids us prefer peace to ,e con tinued battling." King Christian tells his ,army that, though trusting in his readiness again to z uset the enemy, yet he is greatly constrained bees use these hold all too large a portion of the land wthre'l is thus open to devastation. " Therefore must, out struggle end even with an abandonment of terri tory that from the oldest times has belonged to Donmark, and which is knit to the heart of every D an e." The address goes on to say that a small force can come out with honour from a defeat by the armies of two great Powers. His Majesty afterwards thanks the soldiers for their brave en deavours, and reminds them that only by remaining united for the future can Denmark's freedom be secure. "Be in peace what you have been in war, , ' he adds, "and you will promote our country's prosperity as you have hitherto upheld its renown." It is a difficult task to gild the bitter pill and make defeat seem pleasant or tolerable. An in vader that holds more than half your country, and against whom no effectual effort can be made, has the power of imposing his yoke very palpably, and of, in popular parlance, putting your nose to the grindstone. Sleswigers are sent back by the thousand, discharged from military service, to be welcomed in their native duchy by what a month ago were treasonable songs. Jutlanders go home on furlough in civilian' dress, to pass under Prussian authorities and be bullied by their foemen of the late campaign. A little army of returning prisoners will carry throughout Denmark the sense of recent discomfiture, and will, moreover, bring with it vivid impressions of Germany's size and power. In America it has been customary to give the chiefs of a conquered Indian tribe a tour through the States, visiting Washington, New York, and Pittsburg, that they might better judge of the greatness of the pale faces, and take warning not to resist them again. Danes who have travelled to Vienna and Komorn, Minden, and Ehrenbreitstein—l speak of the rank and file—must inevitably return north ward, oppressed with a sense of their enemy's huge ness. The lesson that ten to one is rather long odds, and that les Bros battaillons are better than a good cause, will have sunk deep into every Danish captive. Soldiers remaining with Stein mann, or quartered upon Zealand, to whom the royal proclamation is more particularly addressed, were gloomy, but not despeizing. They believed that a battle might be won at Middelfahrt which would retrieve their prestige, and were anxious to see Prince Frederick Charles try his luck in an attack on Fyen. So far there is perfect truth in the official statement that the army was ready to meet the enemy if necessary. Then, as to his Majesty's praise of its courage and endurance, none who saw what those poor fellows went through without com plaining will dispute the justice of such commenda tion. If England be ever outnumbered by an alliance of several great powers, if our territory be invaded, and we experience a struggle for honour and freedom like that which Denmark has main tained, I hope that we may have better equipment and better fortune than the Danes, but I need not wish my countrymen stouter hearts. King Chris tian suffers along with his people. He is robbed as a monarch; they are too frequently ruined as indi viduals; be can therefore touch unreservedly upon the national disaster, and has done so, as above quoted. It was impossible to put a cheering aspect upon what is occurring. The army knows well enough that things have taken a bad turn, and under existing circumstances a very fair valedictory ad dress has been composed. Alfred liege, whose position in society and family losses give him deserved weight, and who, as I think I mentioned to you lately, is a member of the Folkething is both legislative bodies, has put some searching questions to the Ministers of War and Marine. They are regezding Alsen's capture on ;one 29th as a defeat most damaging to Danish reputation, and keenly felt by all classes. What answer the ministers return matters not much, since a new cabinet can easily throw overboard its prede cessor's responsibility. But there is significance in any sign of parliamentary vigour and life at this moment, the problem cf home government being still unsolved. SCavi OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK RADCLIFFE RACES -THIS DAY. (BY ELECTRIC ,TELEGRAPIL) BOLTON PLATE. Ossian Vanessa OOOOOOOO •• • • 1 Cutler • -• • • 2 Oulton Lowe Four ran. 0000000000000 .. • .:4 EGLIAM RACES—Tnis D.Y. EGILIM STARES. Vision ........................................ • . I Stainley ............................ Lord of the Masor .................................. 3 Four :an. A RAILWAY POLICEMAN CHARGED WITH FELONY. —At the Truro Police-Court on Thursday, before the Mayor (Mr T. Truran), Mr W. T. Chappel, and Mr S Fascoe, Frederick John Julian, a single man, aged 26 years was charged with stealing on the 19th December last, from the Truro station of the Cornwall and West Corn wall railways, a leather cash bag, containing an account book, a cash-sheet, and £ll 65 4d in cash, the pro perty of the West Cornwall Railway Company. The money had been taken for passengers on the West Cornwall line, and on the morning of Saturdaer, the 19:h of December, it was placed in the bag, with the account book and cash-sheet, by Mr Morcom, the then booking olerk. Mr Morcom locked the bag, and put it, as usual, in an open trough inside the ticket compartment of the booking-office, to await transit by the next dewn train. Mr Morcom having occasion to speak to Mr Watkin, the station master, left the office for that purpose, and on his return, the platform policeman, whose duty it was to take the cash bag to the guard Of the Wrest Cornwall, asked him for it. Mr Morcom told him it was in the usual place, and they both went to look for it, but it was not in the place referred to. Notwithstanding repeated inquiries, no tidings were obtained of it until 'We Cnesday, the 3d of August, and that under the following circumstances : Julian was a policeman on the Cornwall line, having charge of the points and switches at the Truro station ; and he lodged with a Mr Glasson. the keeper of a refreshment house on Richmond-hill. About six or .seven weeks ago he committed a blunder;in turning the points, the conse quence of which wae that one train was driven against another, and a serious accident well nigh occurred. For this he was dismissed the company's service, and he went to Exeter, Mr Glasson detaining his box and its contents as security for payment of lodging. Julian sent two or three letters entreating Glasson to let him have the box, and on one occasion stating that it contained £2O worth of property, and a bank-book, and he promise 6 that on receiv ing the box he would pay the bill for lodgings. Giessen de clined, but sent to Julian informing him that if ho would send the key ho might have out of the box any article he wanted. On Wednesday, the 3d inst., Julian sent tie key by Dell, one of the gu..rda on the South Devon and Coen wait lines, and Dell, on arriving at Truro, gav) the.' key to Bate, a porter at the station, desiring him to de• liver it to Glasson, and to got the articles wanted for the next up-train. Bate took the key to Glasson, and asked for the required articles ; but Glasson said ho had heard so much about the valuable contents of the box that he would not open it except in the presence cf a 7.l.tness. Bate ac cordingly witnessed the opening of the 1y;.:( by Glasson, and in it they found the cashbag and accouutbook which had been stolen from the booking-office in December. The bag was still locked, but the bottom had been cut open, and the money was gone. There was in the box no bank book—no other book, in fact, than the company's cashbook. On this discovery a warrant was obtained and placed in the hands of Police-sergeant Rugg, of the Truro borough police, who searched the box and took possession of the cashbag and book. On Monday last he proceeded to Exeter by midday train, and in the afternoon of the same day appre hended Julian, and next morning brought him to Truro. He 'vas remanded until Thursday, when, after the exami nation of witnesses, he was committed to take his trial at the next Cornwall Quarter Sessions. GREAT FIRE IN HULL.-A telegram from Hull yesterday afternoon say.:—" A tremendous fire is now raging in this town. Several valuable warehouses in Railway-street have been consumed. Thompson, Nl`liaY, and Co., and Carver and Co. are the firms chiefly affected , The loss of property amounts to many thousands of pounds. The fire is still raging, and the vessels in the docks are being removed." A VEXATIOUS MISNOMER. -02° of what are termed fire-proof safes has at length been dug out of the ruins of Colonel I\l‘Murdo's residence, and, upon being opened, was found not t o have secured a sin g le valuable, either of plate or jewell er y . A presentation sword, from Lord Ellenborougb, with a real Damascus blade, was found melted in two. This sword was made at the time of the Crusades, and was highly prizod by the gallant colonel. Another sword, presented by General Sir Charles Napier, has also been found injured in a similar manner, and the whole of the gold appointments and diamonds have been lost. So much value did the gallant colonel attach to the various presentations that he had holes drilled in the bottom of the safes, so as to screw them down to the floor, and the flames entering the apertures destroyed the contents. Had it not been for the drilling of the safes their contents might have been Bayed, - RUIsTNYMEDE STAKES. Peon.. Rappel ...................... 2 Deerfoot Six ran. LATEST BETTING. EBOR HANDICAP , 4to 1 axst Lancashire (offered): Ilyrnettas scratched at 10 45 this morning. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, CITY BETTING—YESTERDAY. EI3OR HANDICAP. 6to 2 a gs t E ast Lancashire (taken) 6to 1 ags t R aglan (taken) 14 to 1 agst Caller Ou (offered) 13 to 1 age, Donnybrook (taken) 14 to 1 agst Clown (taken) 20 to 1 agst Hightlyer's dam colt (offered) 30 to 1 agst Hymettus (offered) 40 to 1 agst Alabama (offered) 60 to 1 agst Welcome (offered) ST. LEGER. 7to 4 agst Blair Athol (taken and offered) 3to 1 agst General Peel (offered) 10 to 1 agst Baragah (taken and offered) TATTERSALLS'-LAST EVENING. GREAT EBOR HANDICAP. 3to 1 agst East Lancashire (taken and offered)] 4to 1 agst Raglan (offered, take sto 1) 10 to 1 agst Caller On (taken and offered) 33 to 1 agst Ilymettus (offered) 33 to 1 agst Welcome (offered) ST. LEGER. 2to 1 agst Blair Athol (offered) 3to 1 agst General Peel (taken freely) Bto 1 agst Baragh (taken freely) 20 to 1 agst Knight of Snowdon (offered) 33 to 1 agst Breeze (offered) RADCLIFFE RACES-MONDAY. The Phillips Handicap of 5 sous each, 3 ft, with 30 'added. . - About one mile. Mr T. Cliff's Wildman, 3 yrs, Bst 41b Mr J. Osborne's Gaily, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b (Whiteley) 2 Mr Barber's The Cutler, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b Betting-5 to 4on Gaily, sto 2 each agst the others•t Won by half a length; a neck between second and third. The Bury Plate Handicap, of 40 soya, for all ages ; win ners extra. About three-quarters of a mile. Mr Barber's Cutaway, 3 yrs, Bst 6!b (Britton) 1 Mr Handley's Ossian, 4 yrs, Bst 81b (H. Grimshaw) 2 Mr T. Smith's Dermot Asthore, 3 yrs, 7st.. (Cranshaw) 3 Betting-5 to 4 agst Cutaway, 6to 4 apt Ossian. Won by a neck ; three lengths between second and third. The Grey de Wilton Cup (Handicap) of 100 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 soya each, 3 ft ; second to save his stake ; winners extra. About one mile and a half, Mr T. Cliff's Wildman, 3 yrs , Gat 21b Keny on ) 1 Mr Barber's M ac b e th, 3 yre,sst 71b (Car roll) 2 Mr Amberry's Nemo, 3 yrs, sst 71b . . (Sherrington) 0 Betting--5 to 2on Wildman, who won by five lengths. Nemo did not pass the post. The Selling Handicap of 3 sous each, with 25 added. About three-quarters of a mile. Mr J. Osborne's Nelly Gray (h b), 2 yrs, Set Sib (Carroll) 1 Mr C. Rich's Blondin, 3 yrs, Bst 5113.... (11. Grimshaw) 2 Mr Noble no, Raparation, 2 yrs 6st 121 b .. (W. Noble) 3 Mr Boathouse's David, 3 yre, get 101 b.... (Williamson) 4 Betting--6 to 4on Nelly Gray, 4to 1 agst Blondin, 6to 1 agst David. Won by two lengths; a bad third. The winner was not sold. The All-aged Handicap Plate of 3 soya each, with 2:5 added. About one mile. Mr Handley's Ossian, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b .. (G. Grimshaw) 1 Mr Beaumont's Vanessa, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Whiteley) 2 Mr W. Phiillips's Master Joe. 3 yrs, 7st (Carroll) 3 Mr Backhouie's David, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (Haystead) 4 Betting-5 to 4on Vanessa, 6to 4 agat Ossian, 10 to 1 agst any other. Won by a short head ; a bad third. LATEST BETTING EBOR HANDICAP. 100 to 1 agst Hymettus (offered) CRAVEN HANDICAP, Terror scratched. RACING FIXTU: Egham Dover .. lB Oxford .. 18 Yarmouth York August 2E SEPT: Weymouth 1 Baden-Baden 1 Warwick September 6 Bridgwater 8 Leicester 8 Doncaster .. OCTi Bedford Edinburgh and Lothians _ Brecon .. 19 Richmond Royal Caledonian Hunt 21 Monmouth 22 Manchester Autumn NewmarketFirst October 27 ,BER Lincoln Kelso .... Gloucester Newmarket Houg on 24 :MBER. Club. - .. 5 Newmarket Second Oct. 10 NQYE. Worcester Autumn .... 1 Shrewsbury Autumn .. 14 Leamington &War. Hunt 22 IRISH. SEPTEMBER. Carragh OCTOBER. Carragh STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1864. NOVEMBER. Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt 22 The Price of Gold. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark and the short exchany on London is 13.5 j per £1 sarling. Standard gold at the floglish Mint price is, therefore, about 3-10ths per cent, dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of eichange at New York on London and the premium on gold are quoted with such large differences that no ca cu ations can be based on them ; but gold continues to be shipped to England. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 21 per mille pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.271 per £1 sterling. On oomparing these rates with the English Mint price of .C 3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 2-10 the per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. Al TACK ON A NEW ZEALAND NEWSPAPER OFFICk; BY THE CREW OF A MAN•OF-WAR.--, The follow:ng episode of the war in New Zealand is given by the Ilielbotwne Argus, The" Auckland New Zealander had, in an artiCle published on the Ist of June, referring to as the forl orn hope in the death of Cap,t. Hamilton, of the Esk, stated :—' It is feared that this brave o ffi cer was cruelly deserted by h is men, who were seized W ith a panic and fled b ac k to our a critical moment, b ut if the men had displayed hal f the courage and d aring of their the posi attack.t posi tion, after I t beingis true g i t a w ;J a antlY led .. officers a very different result we'uld have to be chronicled r es p e cting this unfortu nate encount er.' This offended the seamen of the Esk, who in numbers 60 str ong , came down to the office, and co mmenced proceedings which por tended pulling the bu i ld ing —a wooden one—down. One of these men cried out, We have the authority of our offi cers for what we are doing.' Magistrates interfered to prevent violence, the police were called, and Commodore Sir William Wiseman appealed to, but in vain. The poli ce were unable to cope with the rioters, and the commodore corroborated the assertion that the officers connived at the riot by not interfering, Temporising was resorted to • and, on the promise that an extraordinary eiitiou should issue, retracting the previous statement, the scan;en retired. The extraordinary edition came out with a ridiculous denial of the charge aga i ns t ti n N ava l B r i ga d e, and attribut i ng the panic which caused the sudden retreat to a mistake of the 63th Regiment, This, it was also mentioned, was the substance of the statement made by the rioting seamen, and it was signed John P. Beckett, Quartermaster.' On Thursday night last a murder was c ommitted in a house in th e A venue Lamotte-pique t, on the person of a young wom an o f loose character name d Eugenio Elie, aged 25. A dragoon who called at her lodgings on Fri day morning found her lying dead on the floor of her bedroom, with a calico night jacket twisted into a cord drawn so tightly round her neck as to have forced a great quantity of blood from her nostrils. As the unfortunate woman's money an d jewellery were found safe in her drawers, robbery could hardly have been the motive for tile crime, unless, indeed, the murderer had become alarmed, and had not time to search for plunder. An investigation, has bccu ordcrcd ih)1,..0.1,Q [RES FOR 1864. fITST. Piy.uouth Lie:ll:kid 29 Devon and Exeter .. 30 Stocktcn 3O Derby DiI3ER. THE WAR IN DENMARK,